Much of our extended family history
centers around Maybell, CO and Moffat County. My late father was born down the
road in Sunbeam, and his home of record when he was drafted was Skull Creek,
CO. He was living outside Maybell when he died in his sleep, age 64.

Plan to take off later in the week. The
Ute Indian tribe plan a blessing ceremony in the Sand Wash Basin NNE of Maybell
where large herds of feral horses roam. My sister wants to attend. Starts at 0530
Sunday morning.Yikes! Since their forefathers and ours were busy
killing each other some 100+ years ago, it may be a surreal experience. They
may, or may not, hold a ceremony in the Maybell Park.

We will go out to the old homestead and
visit the family cemetery.

A
wildfire burned it last fall and the carefully torn down cabin was lost. The fire
missed the cemetery area.

The hillside dugout was completely gutted as was the
old outhouse.

Whenever I pass the Rabbit Ears headed
west on US 40 and into the Yampa River basin, I start to feel at home like no
other place I’ve ever been. And I’ve been everywhere.

Depending on several factors, weather,
roads, mud, commitments, etc. may take a day or two and drive via Irish Canyon
to an area in Wyoming called Adobe Town in the Red Desert. This may be my best weather window to
see the area.

Next week is a sit down with my current
employer. Several changes have occurred or are forecasted. My route co-driver
for the past three years quit. Fed up with problems being ignored. Depending on
how the sit down goes, I may join him.

There will probably be a post or two
before the trip, or not. Seem to have caught Old AFSarge’s AWOL muse.

Monday, April 23, 2018

Can’t identify the author. This has been
copied and pasted several times. I got it off a Facebook posting by a high
school classmate.

Please someone tell us this is fake news? I copied and pasted
the following.

From 2001 to 2005 there was an ongoing investigation into the
Clinton Foundation. A Grand Jury had been empaneled. Governments from around
the world had donated to the “Charity”. Yet, from 2001 to 2003 none of those
“Donations” to the Clinton Foundation were declared.

Hmmm, now you would think that an honest investigator would be
able to figure this out. Guess who took over this investigation in 2002? Bet
you can’t guess. None other than James Comey. Now, that’s interesting, isn’t
it?

Guess who was transferred in to the Internal Revenue Service to
run the Tax Exemption Branch of the IRS? Your friend and mine, our favorite
person in the whole world, Lois Lerner. Now, that’s interesting, isn’t it?

It gets better, well not really, but I am sure this is all just
a series of strange coincidences, right? Guess who ran the Tax Division inside
the Department of Injustice from 2001 to 2005? None other than the Assistant
Attorney General of the United States, Rod Rosenstein. Now, that’s interesting,
isn’t it?

Guess who was the Director of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation during this time frame??? I know, it’s a miracle, just a
coincidence, just an anomaly in statistics and chances, Robert Mueller.

What do all four casting characters have in common? They all
were briefed and/or were front line investigators into the Clinton Foundation
Investigation. Now that’s just a coincidence, right?

Ok, lets chalk the last one up to mere chance. Let’s fast
forward to 2009, shall we? James Comey leaves the Justice Department to go and
cash-in at Lockheed Martin. Hillary Clinton is running the State Department, on
her own personal email server by the way. The Uranium One “issue” comes to the
attention of the Hildabeast. Like all good public servants do, you know looking
out for America’s best interest, she decides to support the decision and
approve the sale of 20% of US Uranium to no one other than, the Russians. Now
you would think that this is a fairly straight up deal, except it wasn’t, the
People got absolutely nothing out of it. However, prior to the sales approval,
no one other than Arkansas Bill goes to Moscow, gets paid 500K for a one hour
speech then meets with Vladimir Putin at his home for a few hours.

Ok, no big deal right? Well, not so fast, the FBI had a mole
inside the money laundering and bribery scheme. Guess who was the FBI Director
during this timeframe? Yep, Robert Mueller. He even delivered a Uranium Sample
to Moscow in 2009. Guess who was handling that case within the Justice
Department out of the US Attorney’s Office in Maryland. None other than, Rod
Rosenstein. Guess what happened to the informant? The Department of Justice
placed a GAG order on him and threatened to lock him up if he spoke out about
it. Interesting, huh?

How does 20% of the most strategic asset of the United States of
America end up in Russian hands when the FBI has an informant, a mole providing
inside information to the FBI on the criminal enterprise? Guess what happened
soon after the sale was approved? ~145 million dollars in “donations” made their
way into the Clinton Foundation from entities directly connected to the Uranium
One deal. Guess who was still at the Internal Revenue Service working the
Charitable Division? None other than, Lois “BOLO” Lerner. Interesting, huh?

Ok, that’s all just another series of coincidences, nothing to
see here, right? Let’s fast forward to 2015.
Due to a series of tragic events in Benghazi and after the 9 “investigations”
the House, Senate and at State Department, Trey Gowdy who was running the 10th
investigation as Chairman of the Select Committee on Benghazi discovers that
the Hildabeast ran the State Department on an unclassified, unauthorized,
outlaw personal email server. He also discovered that none of those emails had
been turned over when she departed her “Public Service” as Secretary of State
which was required by law.
He also discovered that there was Top Secret information contained within her
personally archived email. I will spare you the State Departments cover up, the
nostrums they floated, the delay tactics that were employed and the outright
lies that were spewed forth from the necks of the Kerry State Department, we
shall leave it with this…… they did everything humanly possible to cover for
the Hildabeast.

Now this is amazing, guess who became FBI Director in 2013?
Guess who secured 17 no bid contracts for his employer with the State
Department and was rewarded with a six million dollar thank you present when he
departed his employer. No one other than James “Wassup Homey” Comey. Amazing
how all those no-bids just went right through at State, huh? Now he is the FBI
Director in charge of the “Clinton Email Investigation” after of course his FBI
Investigates the Lois Lerner matter at the Internal Revenue Service and
exonerates her. Nope, couldn’t find any crimes there. Can you guess what
happened next? In April 2016, James Comey drafts an exoneration letter of
Hillary Rodham Clinton, meanwhile the DOJ is handing out immunity deals like
candy. They didn’t even convene a Grand Jury.
Like a lightning bolt of statistical impossibility, like a miracle from God
himself, like the true “Gangsta” Homey is, James steps out into the cameras of
an awaiting press conference on July the 8th of 2016, and exonerates the
Hildabeast from any wrongdoing. Can you see the pattern?

I could go on, Rosenstein becomes Asst. Attorney General, Comey
gets fired based upon a letter by Rosenstein, Comey leaks government
information to the press, Mueller is assigned to the Russian Investigation sham
by Rosenstein to provide cover for decades of malfeasance within the FBI and
DOJ and the story continues. FISA Abuse, political espionage….. pick a crime,
any crime, chances are…… this group and a few others did it. All the same
players. All compromised and conflicted. All working fervently to NOT go to
jail themselves. All connected in one way or another to the Clinton’s. They are
like battery acid, they corrode and corrupt everything they touch. How many
lives have these two destroyed? It cannot be numbered.

Incest, it’s Incestuous. As of this writing, the Clinton
Foundation, in its 20+ years of operation of being the largest International
Charity Fraud in the history of mankind, has never been audited by the Internal
Revenue Service.

Do believe all us bitter clinging deplorables
have ample reason to distrust our “betters”.

Without the election of President Trump,
little of this would have been exposed IMO.

Sunday, April 22, 2018

Most of my posts get 50-70 views according to Blog-spot stats. Small potatoes compared to many on my sidebar.The post HR 280 LEOSA has nearly 600 views, the most, by far, for any post I've put up since starting this blog. I'm dumbfounded.What does it mean? I don't know but I'm probably now on the first draft for the train to FEMA camps. If not, I will be so disappointed.

The retail car sales game is chaotic for
the most part but one hard and fast rule seems to be found anywhere in the
country; the deal comes first! When a salesperson has a customer sitting at a desk
and figures are being discussed at the “tower” with whoever is “desking” the
deal (sales manager) no one interrupts.Woe is he who violates this rule.

This incident went down in a Seattle
suburb involving the sales manager, “Beefy Boy”, a wholesaler of Iranian
origins, and myself, “The Tank”.

Beefy Boy was a shot putter in college and was
on the scrubbed Moscow Olympics Team. He outweighed me by fifty pounds
or so but gave me my nickname after a scuffle in 1986 when we were both mere
salesmen. He ended up on his butt. When he got up, he said, “Damn you are a
tank”. (Thankfully, two managers had put themselves between us).

The building we worked from was built on
a slope with the rear portion some ten feet above the ground. Large windows
were along one wall and left open in the summer as we didn’t have a/c.

The Iranian was an arrogant asshole and
thought the rules didn’t apply to him. He and Beefy Boy did coke together,
among other things, and he forgot his place in the scheme of things.

I was selling a car and Beefy Boy was
desking the deal. The Iranian kept interrupting. Wanted to conclude his
business and be on his way. Upon his third interruption, I threw his scrawny
200 lb ass out the window. Ten feet down he landed in blackberry bushes.
Turning back to Beefy Boy, I snarled, “Now desk my damn deal”. He did.

The Iranian took it upon himself to
complain to the General Manager. That got him banned from the premises for six
months. I got an “attaboy” from the GM and Beefy Boy got an ass chewing he
didn’t soon forget. The sale? Closed it on the third “pencil” for a nice gross
and helped me be top salesman for the weekend (worth $200).

In today’s environment I probably would
have ended up in jail convicted of a “hate” crime.

My “attaboy” wouldn’t have sounded like
one to an outside observer. That same observer wouldn’t understand, “YOU kinky
motherfucker”, is high praise. Like most activities, the car biz is a world unto
itself.

Just a bit of free advice about car
dealerships. Put some work in before you go “looking”. I always appreciated an “adult”
customer who came in prepared. Time is money and a quick transaction will
usually result in a fair deal for the customer. If I have to be your “adult”,
your “parent”, you will pay for my time and knowledge. Plus, if you are stupid
about finances, I will certainly let you be stupid. Real world people, unless
you can find Unicorn Motors.

Wednesday, April 18, 2018

The Law Enforcement Officers
Safety Act (LEOSA) is a United States federal law, enacted in 2004, that allows two classes of persons—the
"qualified law
enforcement officer" and the
“qualified retired or separated law enforcement officer"—to carry a concealed firearm in any jurisdiction in the United States, regardless of
state or local laws, with certain exceptions.

The gun control cabal never rests and no slimy
tactic is beneath them, so it seems. Latest target? County sheriffs.

Their premise. “Billionaires” can bribe
sheriffs in hardscrabble counties into giving them a LEOSA certificate. Utter
bullshit.

How prevalent is this smear across the
country?

Yuma County, Colorado is one example I
know of. Something similar is happening in San Juan County, New Mexico with smears
against candidates for Sheriff in the upcoming election.

The American Mainstream Maggots (h/t BZ)
laud billionaires like Bloomberg and Tom Steyer who dump millions into local
races. They demonize billionaires who set up foundations to help local law
enforcement agencies. Along the way they
besmirch the reputations of decent men and women doing a necessary job for
little appreciation or earnings.

I’m asked from time to time why I remain
a registered Democrat. Short answer, stubbornness. Longer answer, it pisses off
the (P)regressives on one hand and on the other I loathe the smug Jeb! RINOs.
Anyone notice how many aren’t running for reelection?

Wonder why?

Here is hoping the (P)regressives think
they have a winning strategy for the midterms drumming about gun control. They
should ask the Clintons how well that has worked, Bill while President, and
Shillary as a candidate.

Most of us know the classic definition of
insanity, doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
The (P)regressives seem determined to prove this wrong, bless their totalitarian
hearts.

If the gutless RINO Senators would pass
the House passed National Reciprocity bill, much of this would be moot.

Monday, April 16, 2018

A blog post about a purely local matter.
Of interest only because of the outcome.

A concrete and asphalt plant is stopped
cold by local citizens using the courts. Usually developers build next to
existing facilities and then the new home owners want the facilities shut down.
In this case, the houses were there first.

Goggle Earth hasn’t updated their
coverage. This is the area involved. Note the homes upper right and the train
track bottom left.

The plant’s location is ideal from an
operational point. Adjacent to a four lane highway, Interstate Highway five
miles away, and an operating railroad passing nearby with open farmland to
build on, it appeared to be a no brainer.

Add growth and development inclined
county commissioner looking at a few new jobs, lower costs to the county for work
projects due to proximity and state of the art production facilities plus new
tax revenue, and the package was appealing. What could go wrong?

Pissing off a
few pesky citizens nearby and rewriting inconvenient zoning laws is just a
tradition in Weld County.

What did Martin Marietta stockholders get for
their investment? A multi-million white elephant.

We residents did get a new intersection
built to deal with the expected truck traffic. What was there was dangerous.
Stop signs on the side road crossing a four lane highway with a 65 mph speed
limit.

Not learning from this, the Commissioners
are generating another shit storm a few miles northeast.

NIMBY
will always be around wherever you go. Weld County residents in general are not
anti growth. The county is a “Right to Farm” county and feedlots, packing
plants, cheese factories, dairy operations, oil fields, and sugar beet plants
are an accepted fact of life.

The
residents are is fiercely protective of property rights, water rights and a
sustainable economy. This isn’t transplanted Californians/trust funders that
plague the mountain towns leading the fight.

These plants they are fighting
aren’t home grown enterprises. They are designs of outside investors that will
make money while they can then decamp leaving their mess behind.

The Commissioners are in a bind too. Starting around 2000, many of the towns annexed large portions of the county.
The towns got the tax base, but had no means to pay for the services the county
was providing. Roads weren’t plowed in the winter or fixed in the summer. Law
enforcement? Other than running speed traps, forget it. The town’s annexed
problems still spilled over into the county. Not an easy problem to manage, let
alone fix.

To give Martin Marietta credit, a lot of
effort went into making the site less visually jarring and minimize dust and
runoff. Their initial mistake of slickering zoning changes and use permits was
their undoing, IMO. I’m reminded of an owner I worked for whose instructions to
me, “Do it right, do it legal, don’t cut corners”, was a sound business
philosophy.

Still, I’m encouraged the legal system
can be used by ordinary citizens to protect themselves from deep pocket
interests. The considerable effort these citizens had to put forth is
admirable, America at its finest, IMO. Perhaps I’m indulging in wishful
thinking but I see citizens fighting back against powerful interests. The
election of President Trump as an example. The ferocious fight of 2nd
Amendment supporters is another.

Friday, April 13, 2018

Every time a jury summons arrives, I’m
reminded of why I chose my blog title.

After my mother moved into a long term
care facility, I had all her mail forwarded to my post office box. Some time
before she had given me power of attorney.

One day a Jury Summons arrived. I didn’t
bother to read it, just noted the date/time in my planner, and tossed it into
the “Shit I need to do” folder. Showed up at the Justice Center on the day,
handed the summons to a clerk, and took a seat. Again, I didn’t bother to read
it. Instead, opened my briefcase and started working.

Names are being called and I heard my
mother’s name called. WTF? Then I read the summons and, yes, it had my mother’s
name. Being totally cool, went to the window and explained why my mother couldn’t
be there.

When my sister heard the story, I was in
for even more teasing for the rest of my life. That woman forgets nothing.

Did I learn anything from this? Like read
through my mail? Hell no.As my sister
explains, you need some patience to be impatience.

Saturday, April 7, 2018

Enterprise's recent
smearing the NRA angers me. Last week I rented from you. Living in a small
city, my choices are limited to you and Hertz. Be assured when other options
are available I may make a different choice. This saddens me as the Enterprise
staff in Greeley has always given me outstanding customer service. In the
future I suggest you concentrate on serving the public and stay out of
politics. Or, should I conclude, you find my membership in the NRA makes me a
public menace? Perhaps you don't want my patronage.

Response: Ronald - 04/07/2018 12:29 PM

Dear Mr. White,

Although the Enterprise Holdings statement may not reflect my
personal alignment, we apologize for any discomfort this may have caused.

Whenever a corporation gets political these days, it risks
alienating half of its customers.

Please let me know if I can be of further assistance.

Kind regards,

Ron

Enterprise Rent-A-Car E-mail Customer Service Representative

Notice the reference to “Enterprise
Holdings”? Oh yeah, the big dogs get to feel righteous and praised at cocktail
parties while the bulk of the employees get shit on.

What I hope is my email is one of
thousands, and that the shit gets pumped upward to those who made the decision.
Faint hope, I know.

What I can do is speak out and vote with
my wallet. Damned if I will shut up. In the car biz, we were told a satisfied
customer will tell around four people about their experience. An unhappy
customer will tell up to twenty. How many will this blog reach? Stats show
about 1,000 a month. Quit laughing! Some of you get 1,000 a day.

Tuesday, April 3, 2018

Chilling and relaxing. My daughter in law
is recovering from shoulder surgery.

A family where everyone has chores,
including the youngest.

Youngest grand daughter. Has been a straight A honor student since kindergarten.

Road trip companion and back seat driver.
My 22 year old granddaughter who lives in the Denver area did most of the
driving. She enjoys driving, and is a good and careful driver.

She doesn’t like high bridges.

Recommended by a frequent commentator.

Decent weather for most of the trip. A
few construction slowdowns. No Officer Friendly meetings. No drama, a boring
trip (in the best way).

One grandson was able to escape the camera. The other lives out of state.

My son continues to deal with his chronic
reflex pain syndrome while maintain a
positive outlook and determination to beat the odds. Just a bucket of guts and
determination. Being around him makes me humble.

He acquired a replica flintlock pocket
pistol in .50 caliber. Neat toy but not something I’ve the nerve to shoot. He
has no plans, at least at this point, of firing it.

Sunday, April 1, 2018

Visiting youngest son and family in South Carolina when I tried to tease my daughter in law.

Me: "Seems I only visit once in a blue moon".

pause

FDIL: "We can only put up with you once in a blue moon".

We had good roads and few traffic hold ups coming from Colorado. Hope the same is true going back.

I drive in Illinois only when I can't avoid it. Bad roads, 65 mph and revenue generating police every ten miles isn't my idea of a good trip. I have a route via Sikeston, MO to Wickliffe, KY and then Padauch and back on the Interstate. Unfortunately the Hwy60/62 bridge was closed. We ended up going into Illinois and Cairo, ILL. My oldest granddaughter freaked. Such a depressing place. I'm certain she won't enjoy it tomorrow either. Still, 15 minutes going via Cairo is better than two hours via St. Louis proper.Our rental Nissan SUV is comfortable and it is nice sitting up where you can see ahead easier. Not too happy with the 22 mpg but renting in a smaller city limits your choices.My grand daughter is 22 and tech savvy. Amazing the things she can do with her smart phone and the electronics in the rental. Makes me regret, just a smidgen, being a Latter Day Luddite. One shocking moment was seeing all these tall kids masquerading as my grand kids. Need to visit more often.

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Semi retired road warrior, car salesman, occasional repo man. Father of three fine sons. Once a Blue Dog Democrat. Once a soldier; once a pilot. Rolling along life's highway proving there is no fool like an old fool.